Don’t ask Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant about the 2016 playoffs unless you want to get swatted.
The Golden State Warriors forced a Game 7 in their Western Conference Finals series against the Houston Rockets on Saturday in a game where Dubs guard Klay Thompson exploded for 35 points on nine three-pointers. Other than earning the admiration of the Internet, the performance brought back memories of when Thompson went scorched earth in another Western Conference Finals Game 6: against the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2016.
Curry and Durant were speaking to the media after the game when a reporter brought up that past performance, only for both former MVPs to promptly shut it down. Ben Golliver of Sports Illustrated shared the funny exchange.
Reporter: What do you remember about Klay's big Game 6 in OKC in 2016?
Kevin Durant: "Please don't go there. Next question."
Stephen Curry: "I think we both blocked that whole year out of our memory."
— Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver) May 27, 2018
Of course, that is the year when Durant, who was still on the Thunder, blew a 3-1 lead in that conference finals series to Curry and the Warriors, who then blew their own 3-1 lead to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals.
While they obviously still don’t want to talk about it, the events of that year directly led to the Curry-Durant union in Golden State, so things have worked out pretty nicely for them since. In any case, this is just the latest chapter in a funny history of the Warriors denying that the 2016 playoffs ever happened.
